I wrote a piece on Gaga almost a year ago, I began delving into her music during the summer of 2008. While I was choreographing my own little moves to the techno remixed version of “Just Dance” America was just warming up to the album version. OLD NEWS.
Which is why I of course had to listen to her entire Fame Monster before it was released (November 23rd) and do a thorough review. The verdict? I have chills. I’ve been listening to “Alejandro” over and over again.
Disc 1
1. We all know and love “Bad Romance” – love the video, pure artistry. Unparalleled.
2. The first thing that came to mind when listening to “Alejandro” was “Spicy.” This song came to me at a perfect time when I was extricating a man from my life and the lyrics that really spoke to me were “Don’t call my name, I’m not your babe.” She’s fascinating.
3. “Monster” I can’t put my finger on it but she samples a beat from somewhere, this is a song that is going to be sung by every girl across the country while dancing “That boy is a monsterrrrr, he ate my heart”
4. So Happy I Could Die..Is it the modern version of “I Touch Myself?” That would do it no justice. I can easily see it remixed into a club anthem of 2010. “I am as vain as I allow…”
5. Speechless reminds me of some older rock (which Gaga has admitted in interviews she gets a lot of her inspiration from). I’m sure all of us have been “left speechless” by a boy before countless times. “Raise a glass to all the mending broken hearts of all my friends…I‘ll never love again” its amazing how she can write lyrics that seem to apply to all our lives yet the visual displays in her videos are otherworldly. The most amazing contrast no?
6. “Dance In The Dark” – I was highly anticipating this track just because the title seems so epic. “Silicone, Saline, Poison (botox) inject me…baby I’m a free b!tch…some girls won’t dance to the beat of the track..” I love love love this song! It has 80s electronica, vampire mentions (haha) and once again..I got chills of excitement to add this to my workout play list.
7. Telephone: I can’t say the collaboration with Beyonce surprised me. Even Queen B knows a good thing when it comes along, and you know she wants a piece of the Gaga pie.
“When I was doing the video with her, she called me and she said, ‘What do you want to do?” And I’m like, ‘I don’t want to show up in some frickin’ hair bow and be Fashion Gaga in your video.’ I said, ‘I want to do you.’ I want to do my version of Beyonce. So the whole time I was learning the choreography they were calling me Gee-yonce.”
8. Teeth: “Don’t be scared, I’ve done this before…show me your teeth…” When you hear what’s next it will make you fall in love with her even more. “Take a bite of my bad girl meat..” Where does she get these lyrics…I love this, it has almost a western feeling to it, but I swear she shows a lil bit of soul, I’m saying southern belle gospel soul (this coming from the daughter of a Georgian Baptist Belle).
Disc 2
1. “Just Dance” featuring Colby O’Donis
2. “LoveGame”
3. “Paparazzi”
4. “Poker Face”
5. “Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)”
6. “Beautiful, Dirty, Rich”
7. “The Fame”
8. “Money Honey”
9. “Starstruck” featuring Space Cowboy and Flo Rida
10. “Boys Boys Boys”
11. “Paper Gangsta”
12. “Brown Eyes”
13. “I Like It Rough”
14. “Summerboy”
15. “Disco Heaven” (international bonus track) – I’ve been listening to this for quite some time as have most of you.
16. “Again Again” (U.K. bonus track) – Ballad-y with a bit of a punch.
17. “Retro, Dance, Freak” (Japanese bonus track) – love it, it brings the most modern twist on disco I’ve ever heard.
“On my re-release The Fame Monster, I wrote about everything I didn’t write on The Fame,” Lady GaGa told MTV about the record. “While traveling the world for two years, I’ve encountered several monsters, each represented by a different song on the new record: my ‘Fear of Sex Monster’, my ‘Fear of Alcohol Monster’, my ‘Fear of Love Monster’, my ‘Fear of Death Monster’, my ‘Fear of Loneliness Monster’, etc.”
Gaga’s latest tweet:
@ladygaga: Seems as though my twitter was hacked yesterday. I could be angry, except I secretly love how psychotically smart my fans are.
Gaga is so young, so talented and still so humble after 4 of her singles on her very first album shot to number one:
@ladygaga: Listening to bad romance on Z100 cruisin around the city. Lots of tears and shameless vogueing, feels like the first time I heard just dance 8:27 PM Oct 27th from TwitterBerry
Anonymous
December 7, 2009Gaga is a pop goddess